[part 2]

hi guys
so i won one on ebay
i want to make casts of it to sell to tankers and the like
i have no experience doing this
so how do i go about it?

[freakintiger]

You will need to find an experienced resin caster to contract with, one who has experience with large molds and production casting. Bear this in mind though, resin casting materials are not inexpensive. This fact will drive up the price of your end product, perhaps to the point where you will not be able to find a market for it. Remember, you will be offering a resin kit your customers will have to have the skill to assemble and paint, unless you do the assembly and painting which in turn will drive up the price of the end product. Further, even if you offer it as a kit, resin kits offer challenges well beyond your ordinary plastic model kits. This will alienate most potential buyers. Further still, since the Chap Mei Osprey is an inaccurate toy, you will not be able to capture a secondary market of experienced model builders interested in building a 1/18 scale Osprey.

Have fun!

[Jedi_Master_Ben]

Wow!

What an ambitious undertaking. Resin casting is a major expense, not anyone can just jump into it. To do it right, you need preasure chambers (pots) big enough to house the molds. A cheaper method might be in vacume forming the hull pieces.

If I were doing this project, I would make a mold of the ouside, pour plaster to make a hard negative of the outer shell and then use that as the mold in the vacume chamber. In vacume molding, warm styreen sheets are layed on top of the mold and an outer frame goes over the styreen edges holds it in place. The vacume is turned on and all the air is sucked out causing the styreen wrap around the mold, taking on all the details and shapes. Once the vacume is shut off and the styreen is cool, the sheet is pulled off the mold and the machine is rest for the next piece of plastic. The shells are then cut out of the styreen sheet. Some trimming and sanding will be needed.

Now this process is only good if you don't care to replicate the interior. The shells would be glued together with either model glue or pvc glue. The glue fuses the plastic together. The smaller pieces can be molded in resin and glued into place or screwed in.

[part 2]

ok whole idea out the window lol thanks for the tips guys

[DaSmokeEater]

I've never even SEEN one on EBay! Way to go! Was it on the UK site? How much was it? etc. etc.

[oliverbox]

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Originally Posted by part 2

hi guys
so i won one on ebay
i want to make casts of it to sell to tankers and the like
i have no experience doing this
so how do i go about it?

That's awesome. When did you win it?

[part 2]

it was on the ebay uk site
i got it for about £80 is with postage but it was shill bidded so ill talk to ebay when i get it to see if i can gat any cash back
long story but it WAS shill bidding
he had items listed that had bids
next day after the auction ended they was re listed
also when the auction ended i wasnt the highest bidder but imidiatly got a second chance offer

[part 2]

it also shipped internationally
eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace

[DaSmokeEater]

I hope you get it and everything's fine! For what it's worth, I've had more than one of an item that I list on Ebay one after the other, if the second chance bids are good enough I'll offer them up without relisting sometimes.

Keep an eye on the guy, we had a scammer around the Tank a few years ago selling them and not coming through with the product.

[part 2]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaSmokeEater

I've never even SEEN one on EBay! Way to go! Was it on the UK site? How much was it? etc. etc.

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Originally Posted by oliverbox

That's awesome. When did you win it?

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Originally Posted by DaSmokeEater

I hope you get it and everything's fine! For what it's worth, I've had more than one of an item that I list on Ebay one after the other, if the second chance bids are good enough I'll offer them up without relisting sometimes.

Keep an eye on the guy, we had a scammer around the Tank a few years ago selling them and not coming through with the product.

yeah the asshole got me too :C krei liger or somthign